Come As Your Madness: Fashion Show & Masquerade Ball

319 North 11th Street,Philadelphia PA 19107

24 September, 2022

Description

Come as Your Madness: Fashion Show and Masquerade Ball Admittance to witness, participate, celebrate, support and get lost in the folds of spectaclar lunacy. This masquerade competition takes after the original 1950s Come as Your Madness costume party that inspired Kenneth Anger's film The Inauguration of Pleasure Dome. There is one surviving photograph from the original gathering and it depicts Anaïs Nin and one of two husbands, Rupert Pole, in absurd regalia. Nin wears a birdcage over her head with lines from her novels woven in and out of the bars that she called the "ticker tape of the unconscious", while Pole's body is painted with eyes as they hated being ogled. This party is an urging to insert play into what might be a daily mental battle. Come out to cheer on those brave enough to regail and perform their way through the depths of their mania for a chance to be judged the MUSE of MADNESS. Guests are encouraged to participate in the evening's proceedings by dressing in their personal brand of hysteria. Anaïs Nin & Rupert Pole at the OG Come as Your Madness fête.